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Get your ass to Mars… Publisher Frontier Factory and developer KeokeN Interactive have offered up a new trailer for the atmospheric space adventure Deliver Us Mars, which is currently in development for PC and console platforms ahead of its September release date. Set on The Red Planet itself, Deliver Us Mars follows a young explorer and her robotic drone pal as the duo embark upon a mission to locate and recover a selection of ARK colony ships from the sinister force, The Outward. KeokeN promises “a…

By Hayden Mears Fox and Hare #1 Writer: John TsueiArtist: Stacey LeeColorist: Raul AnguloLetterer: Jim CampbellCover Artist: Stacey LeePublisher: Vault Comics The hotly anticipated Fox and Hare #1 was pushed back nearly seven months so that its creative team could rework the story. The problem, according to series scribe Jon Tsuei, was that there wasn’t enough “punk” in his cyberpunk comic. The genre has long been associated with the fetishization and erasure of Asian culture and Tsuei wanted his story to combat those…

On April 7, the world tragically lost Motoo Abiko, a mangaka of nearly 70 years and one half of the comic book-writing duo known collectively as Fujiko Fujio, the creator(s) of Doraemon. During the 52 years since its creation, the titular robot cat, who travels from the future to help out a 10-year-old boy using an array of sci-fi inventions, has become a Japanese pop culture icon. The Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs actually designated the character an “anime ambassador,” and Eiichiro Oda even cited the manga as…

In the new Alex Garland thriller Men, Jessie Buckley plays a woman whose holiday in the English countryside curdles into a surreal nightmare. Her tormenter is at once singular and plural: a whole village of hostile strangers, all with the face and voice of Rory Kinnear. Garland, the sci-fi novelist who wrote and directed Ex Machina and Annihilation (both likewise fixated, to some degree, on questions of gender), never explains the nature of this menacing anomaly, this apparent hive mind of identical stalkers. But anyone…